Display-card support.



Patented Feb. 4, I902.

E. J. TEMPLAR. DISPLAY CARD SUPPORT.

(Appiication filed May 23, 1901.

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD J. TEMPLAR, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DISPLAY-CARD SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 692,385, dated February 4 1902.

Application filed May 23, 1901- Serial No. 61,654- (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. TEMPLAR, a citizen of the United States, residing at Ohicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Display-Card Supports, of which the following, when taken in connection with the drawings accompanying and forming a part hereof, is a full and complete specification, sufficient to enable those skilled in the art to which it pertains to understand, make, and use the same.

This invention relates to supports for display-cards designed to be placed upon counters, desks, and other places in stores, upon desks, mantles, tables, and other articles in offices, dwellings, studios, and other places,

and for other purposes.

The object sought by me in this invention is to obtain an economically-constructed display-card support which may be shipped in large quantities in a flat condition, as it is termed, without fear of injury thereto, a display-card support readily attached to an ordinary display-card, a display-card support which will present a strong and durable device for maintaining a display-card in position to be readily observed on the exposed face thereof, and a display card support which can be readily assembled or set up from its flat position by a person not particularly skilled in the art.

In the drawings referred to and forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a perspective of a display-card provided with a display-card support embodying this invention in operative position supporting such displaycard, the back of the card being exposed to View. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a displaycard support embodying the invention in operative position. Fig. 3 is a plan view of a blank from which two duplicate displaycard supports are obtained, and Fig. 4' is a side elevation of a display-card support embodying the invention with the tongue and flap thereof indicated in broken lines and shown in their bent-up position by full lines.

A reference-letter applied to designate a given part is used to indicate such part throughout the several figures of the drawings wherever the same appears.

A is a blank,preferably of cardboard,strawon the line g.

board, tin, or soft aluminium, from which blank two display-card supports embodying this invention are produced by separating such blank on line B.

G C are lines along which the blank is cut or folded (preferably cut) to obtain the bottom and base edge of the card-support. Baseline C of a display-card support embodying this invention determines the plane in which the display-card (as D) to which the support is attached is held thereby. Preferably line C is substantially at right angles with line B.

E E are L-shaped cuts or slots in blank A. It will be observed that the relative position of the line B and the L-shaped slots E E is such that the end of the free arm of the L- shaped tongue obtained in the completed support embodying this invention is adjacent to the line B and that the L-shaped tongue F F is obtained by merely separating the duplicate supports from each other by cutting on such'line B. I

H H are slots or cuts in blank A.

G is a flap on one edge of blank A, and G is the body part of the support embodying the invention.

Part F of L-shaped tongue F F is a continuation of the flap G and may be bent over thereonto on linef. PartF' of such L-shaped tongue may be bent on line f immediately prior to inserting such part F in slots H H when the support is being put into operative position.

Flap G is obtained by bending the blank Flap G may be attached to the back of the disp1ay-card D by means of an adhesive, or, if preferred, by means of an eyelet applied as indicated by the dotted lines I I in Fig. 1.

The purpose of making two display-card supports in one blank, apparently rights and lefts to each other as illustrated in Fig. 3 of the drawings, is twofold-first, economy of materialand manufacture, as in such case'the blank is rectangular in shape and the several slots and marks thereon may be made upon both of such supports at one operation, and, secondly, economy in handling and loss by wastage, as when shipped flat and joined by the line B (or on the line B) there is less liability of injury thereto before such supports are attached to a display-card, as after such division the L-shaped tongues F F are provided with a free end F, intended to be inserted in slots H H, and such free ends are liable to be accidentally bent or torn from "proper shape,while prior to cutting" the blank on the line B and lines 0 G such L-shaped tongues are integral at both ends thereof with the blank A and not liable to injury.

The blank A may be cut out on a common paper-cutter, and all the several slots E, E, H, and H, and the broken lines 13 C O, indicating where the blank may be cut to obtain the supports desired, and also the dotted lines ff, indicating where the L-shaped tongue F F may be bent to form up the support, may be placed in such blank at one operation.

The blank A when out and marked as described may be shipped in the flat form,with the flap G thereof gummed or glued or provided with other means for attachment to a display-card, as eyelets I I, and with directions for bending it up into shape and for cutting (on line B) Without great liability to injury.

To put the display-card supports embodying this invention into operative-position, the blank A is cut open on line B, L* shaped tongue F F bent on lines f and f, and the free end F of such tongue inserted in cuts or slots H H, as is well illustrated in Figs. 1, 2, and 4.

The support may be attached.to a displaycard before or after being bent up into shape,

as described, as preferred. When it is to be attached to a display-card by an adhesive, the same is applied to the flap G and such support gummed to the back of the display-card in the ordinary Way of attaching gummed articles together. When it is to be attached by an eyelet, such eyelet is passed through such flap G and through the display-card and secured in place in the ordinary way of securing eyelets in place.

I do not confine myself to any particular manner of attaching the flap G to the back of the display-card D.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a display-ca rd support, a blank provided with an L-shaped tongue at one end thereof and provided with a score on which the blank may be bent to obtain a flap on one side thereof, of which flap one arm of the L-shaped tongue is an extension, and provided with an additional score on which the L-shaped tongue may be bent back toward the flap, and such blank also provided with apertures in the body part thereof through which the free arm of the L-shaped tongue may be passed when the blank is bent up into operative position, and such L-shaped tongue provided with a score upon which one arm thereof may be bent to lie adjacent to the body part of the blank and to extend through the apeotures, in combination with means for attaching the blank to a display-card; substantially as described.

2. In a display-card support, a blank provided with top and bottom edges of different lengths, such top edge being at right angles to the side of the blank which is to be attached to a display-card and the bottom edge at substantially right angles with the remaining side of the blank, to form the base of the support, such blank provided with a flap to be attached to a display-card,an L-shaped tongue one arm whereof is a continuation of the flap of the blank, and such blank provided with slotted apertures through which the free end of the L-shaped tongue extends when the blank is formed into operative condition, and means for attaching the flap to a displaycard; substantially as described.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a blank provided with L-shaped slots therein, and provided with a plurality of straight slots, such blank also provided with a line to indicate a line of division of such blank into duplicate blanks each one whereof will be provided with an L-shaped tongue when so divided, and such blank provided with marks to indicate lines upon which the duplicate blanks may be,- severally, folded to obtain flaps, means for attaching the flaps to display cards, and such blank provided with additional marks to indicate the base-lines of the duplicate blanks, respectively; substantially as described.

Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 16th day of May, A. D. 1901.

EDWARD J. TEMPLAR.

In presence of CHARLES TURNER BROWN, 00m. A. ADAMS. 

